Indeed, those holding up his pictures and waving flags in his honour () would probably be the first ones sent to the Gulag camps. A cruel man indeed, but like this Charles Manson guy, has his followers too (double )

Hindenburgplatz, Hindenburg Straße, they are being renamed too. Because even though Hindenburg won a great victory at Tannenberg in WW1 and was a political leader, he gave the complete power to Adolf Hitler. Now historians have brought to light, that he did know what what he was doing and what Adolf was really like. So no public streets, squares, lanes or whatsoever should bear his name. And that is 68 years after the 3rd Reich was destroyed.

Stalingrad name was changed as was Lenningrad. Was Lennin just as bad as Stalin? Or did a modern USSR want to change the names for namesake?

Anybody have any real answers?

Mathew

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I didn't know that was happening in Germany, I think that's going a little to far to start renaming things just b/c Hindenburg was President. lets not forget that looking back in time is always 20/20. In 1933, no TV, Internet, a Gov't controlled media, citizens rarely traveled outside their own country or even their own town and a host of other issues. World War 1 was a fiasco with all sides to blame and a corrupt European system.

Kruschev wanted to wipe away everything that was Stalin including Stalingrad. Perhaps, keeping the name of Stalingrad will increase the tourism industry, prob a good move, capitalism at its best, gotta love it,